At present, there are a total of 12 confirmed and suspicious cases of omicron in Latvia, the Minister of Health Daniels Pavļuts said in the TV3 program “900 seconds”.
There are no new cases of imported Covid-19 omicron in Latvia, D. Pavļuts added.
The NRA portal has already written that due to the rapid spread of the new variant of Covid-19 – omicron – not only in Africa, but also in European countries, more intensive screening of arriving passengers Covid-19 is being carried out from today.
Covid-19 will be tested on a random daily basis for all passengers on four to six flights, regardless of their vaccination or disease status.
During the testing of volunteers at the airport “Riga”, the first six imported cases of Covid-19 were registered, in which specific mutations of the omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus were detected in the laboratory. Two of these cases were confirmed by sequencing.
Of the six cases reported, three were infected in Sweden, two in Norway and one in the United Kingdom. In addition, four contact persons of these passengers have been infected, reports the Ministry of Health. Therefore, according to the Ministry, it is important to extend the testing not only to immigrants from countries where the circulation of the omicron variant has been proven in the society, but also to other countries from which the infection is most often introduced into Latvia.
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